Esteban Veintimilla (BMath ’18)
Graduate student, Faculty of Engineering
> Co-founder and CEO, 1Mentor
> Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business
Named fastest growing tech company in Canada on Deloitte’s 2021 Technology Fast 50, Snapcommerce was co-founded by University of Waterloo alumni Henry Shi (BCS ’14) and Hussein Fazal (BMath ’05). The company has more than 20 million users, $1 billion in sales, and grew by more than 32,000 per cent between 2017 and 2021.
A multi-university team featuring two graduate students from the University of Waterloo failed to qualify for the finals Friday of an autonomous racing event in Las Vegas.
But six weeks of preparation by Brian Mao and Ben Zhang still paid off when their million-dollar car recorded a top speed of 137 miles per hour (mph) during a run before the main competition at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
The performance built on a disappointing result at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in October when their car had a GPS malfunction and failed to finish.
Richard Xie, an enterprising undergraduate student at the Cheriton School of Computer Science, is changing the way we interact with today’s housing market. A fifth-year student, Xie has brought artificial intelligence to real estate through his company Manorlead and is actively working on a metaverse for preconstruction real estate.
While Manorlead was developed during his university years, the concept began in elementary school.
From about the age of 10, Andrew D’Souza (BASc ’08) began to think of inventive ways to earn money. An early entrepreneur, whose family immigrated to Canada from India, D’Souza started providing his neighbours with services such as paper-delivery, lawn mowing and dog walking. Later, he took on part-time jobs to save for university because he wanted to avoid debt.
A pair of University of Waterloo graduate students have put a disappointing crash behind them as they prepare for the next historic step in autonomous racing this week.
Brian Mao and Ben Zhang are in Las Vegas as members of a multi-university team competing with a self-driving racecar against peers from around the world.
“I love the balance of having a semester where I can study a variety of subjects that will go towards my majors and minors.”
Prianka Hoque is a fourth-year student in Honours Arts and Business Co-op with a major in Communications Studies, as well as minors in Legal Studies and Political Science. Although it appears that Hoque has always had her undergraduate experience figured out, it was not always clear to her.
When University of Waterloo co-op student Anthony Ilersich faced the challenge of easing vaccine-related anxiety in children, he used his love for gaming to make a difference.
Students can now apply to ear-marked opportunities with scholarships attached, to help overcome the barriers they may face to participating in international work-integrated learning (iWIL) experiences.
The University of Waterloo’s new Powering Change program will offer 65+ transformational iWIL experiences in more than 20 non-traditional locations. From January 2022 to March 2025, the program will benefit students who are Indigenous, have accessibility needs, or face income barriers.
Co-op students and interns can play a more significant role in advancing the United Nations' Sustainable Development goals, new research shows.
In work placements and internships across 12 countries, a new study found that 13 per cent of students from the University of Waterloo's Faculty of Environment carried out work related to the sustainable development goals (SDGs). The goals include zero hunger, quality education, and clean water and sanitation.